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• Ford Motor Company
expanded a previous recall September 8 to include an additional 1.5 million of
its model years 2012 – 2016 vehicles in select makes due to a problem in the
pawl spring tab in the side door latches where the tabs can break and prevent
the doors from closing, thereby increasing the risk of injury. – TheCarConnection.com

1. September
8, TheCarConnection.com – (National) Ford adds 1.5 million vehicles
to door latch recall: Escape, Focus, Mustang, Lincoln MKC, more. Ford Motor
Company expanded a previous recall September 8 to include an additional 1.5
million of its model years 2012 – 2016 vehicles in select makes due to a
problem affecting the pawl spring tab in the side door latches where the tabs
can break and prevent the doors from closing, or cause the door to open while
the vehicle is in motion, thereby increasing the risk of injury. Ford has
received three injury reports potentially linked to the recall. Source:

• Officials fined Wells Fargo & Company a total of $185
million September 8 after the bank’s employees allegedly opened more than 2
million unauthorized bank and credit card accounts to meet projected sales
goals. – Associated Press See item 4 below in
the Financial Services Sector

• A former Demarest, New Jersey resident pleaded guilty September
8 for his role in a $65 million identity theft scheme where he and
co-conspirators filed fraudulent tax returns and obtained $4.7 million in tax
refund checks. – Mahwah PatchSee item 5 below in
the Financial Services Sector

• A former medical director of several Orlando, Florida-based
clinics was charged September 8 for his alleged participation in a $13.8
million Medicare health care fraud scheme from July 2008 – December 2011. – U.S.
Department of Justice

16. September
8, U.S. Department of Justice – (Florida) Florida doctor
indicted for role in $13.8 million Medicare fraud scheme. The former
medical director of several Orlando, Florida-based clinics, including Legend
Medical & Rehabilitation Inc., Incare Medical & Rehab Center Inc., and
CKD Health Care Inc., among others, was charged in an indictment filed
September 8 for his alleged participation in a $13.8 million Medicare health
care fraud scheme where he and a co-conspirator caused the submission and
concealment of false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for expensive
prescription drugs and physical therapy that were not provided or medically
necessary from July 2008 – December 2011. Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/florida-doctor-indicted-role-138-million-medicare-fraud-scheme

Financial Services Sector

4. September
8, Associated Press – (National) Wells Fargo fined $185M on phony accounts, fires
5,300 staff. California and Federal regulators fined Wells Fargo &
Company a total of $185 million September 8 after the bank’s employees
allegedly opened more than 2 million bank and credit card accounts and
transferred money into those accounts without the authorization of its
customers in order to meet projected sales goals. Officials reported that 5,300
Wells Fargo employees were fired in connection with the fraudulent activities. Source:
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/wells-fargo-fined-185-million-improper-account-openings-n645031

5. September
8, Mahwah Patch – (National) Former Bergen man admits role in $65 million
identity theft scheme. A former Demarest, New Jersey resident pleaded
guilty September 8 to Federal charges for his role in a $65 million identity
theft scheme where he and co-conspirators stole the birth dates and Social
Security numbers from Puerto Rican citizens in order to file fraudulent tax
returns and obtain $4.7 million in tax refund checks, which he deposited into
bank accounts controlled by the group. The man also stated he and co-conspirators
bribed a mail carrier to intercept the refund checks before they were delivered
to the identity theft victims. Source: http://patch.com/new-jersey/mahwah/former-bergen-man-admits-role-65-million-identity-theft-scheme

Information Technology Sector

20. September
9, Softpedia – (International) New Linux trojan discovered coded in
Mozilla’s Rust language. Dr. Web security researchers discovered a new
trojan coded in Mozilla’s Rust programming language was targeting Linux-based
platforms and found that an attacker in control of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
channel can send a message to the channel’s public chat that forces all
connected bots to parse the message and execute the malicious action. The
researchers believe this is a testing version of the malware as the trojan
infects victims and gathers information about the device’s local system and
sends it to its command and control (C&C) center. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/new-linux-trojan-discovered-coded-in-mozilla-s-rust-language-508135.shtml

21. September
8, SecurityWeek – (International) DropboxCache cross-platform backdoor targets
OS X. Kaspersky Lab security researchers discovered that the DropboxCache,
known as Mokes.A or Backdoor.OSX.Mokes now targets Apple Mac operating system
(OS) X devices and establishes a connection to the command and control
(C&C) server using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) on Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) port 80 in order to set up its backdoor features on an infected
device, which include capturing audio, monitoring removable storage, scanning
the file system for Microsoft Office documents, as well as creating a series of
temp files with the collected data when the C&C server is not available,
among other features. Researchers warned the malware’s operator can execute
arbitrary commands on the infected system and define own file filters to
improve its monitoring of the file system. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/dropboxcache-cross-platform-backdoor-targets-os-x

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U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
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